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====== Piloting ======

Using the OpenCPN GPX utility and the Chart Work - Piloting program is it possible to do on an electronic nautical chart the work you do in a traditional way.

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Piloting and coastal fix

===== Advanced piloting techniques - Currents =====

  * Currents Drift and Set
  * Lasheras
  * Ciclonic method (820. Determining Track Made Good by Plotting Running Fixes. Bowditch-American Practical Navigator.)

===== Coastal navigation =====

  * Fix by simultaneous Distance and Bearing of same object. Distance by:

Geographic Range \\ D( waterline, top of object )

  * Fix by 2 simultaneous Horizontal Angles

